This is really incredible. So many artists who draw McCain don't do it right. He really is tough! His jaw is so strange and asymmetrical. It's like in an Ed Benedict drawing where when a character turns, his body is an entirely new shape. It's impressive enough to draw him well, but to make a sculpture of him, and do it this well, is just amazing.

Chris used to crack me up by throwing tiny kneaded eraser critters he'd lovingly sculpted coated with spit & col-erase pencil over the top of the wall. They'd land on my drawings leaving little UN-erasable bug shaped stains effectively requiring redrawing or lots of white out. The bastard! He's gotten even better through the years.

Thanks, John, for the post on Irv Spence. I only got the chance to work under him for a brief while in my misspent youth but the lessons I learned have proven invaluable.

This is OT but McCain use to be more of a level headed person. Hell, I would have voted for him if he ran in 2000. Okay, maybe not then since I was only 13. Now, he is bending over backwards to be a "conservative".